Locate Someone Free - Search The White Pages!
Locate Someone Free
You can locate someone free by searching the White Pages. These are available free via the Internet as well as hard copy telephone books.
Our researchers often use free online telephone directories and telephone books to locate someone and verify their address and phone number information. We have our own library of telephone books covering cities all over the USA as well a list of our favorite online white page web sites.
So, why do we use hard copy telephone books instead of online white page directories to locate someone free? Good question! We mainly use older telephone books to conduct historical research. Sometimes, in order to locate someone at a current address, we need to obtain historical address information first and then work our way forward year by year.
For instance, in Oregon, an adoptee can obtain their original birth certificate, which will list their birth mother’s name and address at the time of the adoption. So, if the adoptee provides us with a copy of their birth certificate, we can search an old telephone book for the year of the adoption and verify the birth mother’s old address and phone number (we can also verify the spelling of the birth mother’s name which sometimes is spelled incorrectly on the birth certificate). Then, year by year, we can search other, more current telephone directories, to see when the birth mother underwent any address and name changes. At the very least, we can determine when the birth mother moved out of the area, which can also be helpful when trying to locate someone free.
You can visit a local library and they’ll likely have a collection of telephone books for you to access. If they do not, contact the local genealogical society or historical society and see if they can assist you.
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